The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted. - Vilfredo Pareto

Empirical laws ... have only slight or even no value beyond the limits within which they have been observed to be true.

History is a graveyard of aristocracies.

The diverse natures of men, combined with the necessity to satisfy in some manner the sentiment which desires them to be equal, has had the result that in the democracies they have endeavored to provide the appearance of power in the people and the reality of power in an elite.